Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

  • Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Countries of origin: West Germany
  • Language: German, Arabic
  • Release date: October 31, 1974
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Also known as: Fear Eats the Soul
  • "Ali Fear Eats the Soul" is a French romance film produced by Filmverlag der Autoren, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and co-starring Bridget Mira , El Hedi ben Salem and Barbara Valentin . The film was released in West Germany on March 5, 1974   .
    The film tells the story of two ordinary people of different races, ages and countries who met and fell in love in an Arab tavern because of a heavy rain.

    Details

    • Release date October 31, 1974
    • Filming locations Munich, Bavaria, Germany
    • Production companies Filmverlag der Autoren, Tango Film

    Box office

    Budget

    DEM 260,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $8,144

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $11,623

    Gross worldwide

    $15,698

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    • By Rosario 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      Day 21 I am afraid of being alone

      "A year with 365 movies is a new year"


      May 22, 2018 Day 21

      Title: Fear Eats the Soul

      Director: Rainer Werner Fassbender / Germany

      Length: 93 minutes


      The movie is about a love story, but it's not a love movie.

      I am afraid of being alone, so I am looking for someone to love. I am afraid of being alone because I am in love with...

    • By Elsie 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      When we are together, be kind to each other

      The broken German and the slow pace of the film make the film look bad. But that's what characterizes this film, the exotic discomfort and slow irritability are the best experience of the lonely, miserable atmosphere of the film

      The heroine of the film, Amy, is getting old and full of fat. Although the light and shadow of the whole film are bright, they are all low-saturated colors, which make the perception very depressing. (Fortunately there are only 90 minutes, otherwise it will...

    • By Marley 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      Allegory of the Camera

      Fassbender followed Douglas Sek's method of using popular melodrama as a tool to dissect social hypocrisy and contradictions in his filmmaking in the middle and late stages of his creation. Fear of familiarity is more desperate than all class, racial and social issues.

      “The simpler the story, the more real it is, and the more engaged the audience will be. If art stimulates the possibility of further discussion, then we think it reaches the extreme.” Fassbender followed Douglas in the...

    • By Don 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      loneliness, fear and light

      I watched this film, largely because I think I am a person with fear, and I think the erosion of the soul by fear is really worth watching. For love, like the couple in the film, two lonely and frightened souls get together. It feels to me like two faint points of light fused together to form a slightly stronger heart photoelectric with two colors, but still very faint. After the heroine and the hero were together, the heroine became less lonely, but I still saw her sometimes bowing her...

    • By Damion 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      Fear comes from love itself

      Emmi, a 60-year-old cleaning lady, met Ali, a 40-year-old Moroccan car mechanic, in a bar because she was sheltering from the rain. The two danced under the instigation of the crowd. Finally, Ali sent Emmi home again. They told each other at Emmi's house. The loneliness, the words are long and the nights are short.

      Later, the two interacted frequently, got along sweetly, and even got married. Sons and daughters, neighbors, Emmi's colleagues, almost all of them blamed them,...

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    • By Dandre 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      Doors, windows, railings, glass, and even the camera screen separate the people who come and go in the film from the audience and the actor. Fassbinder tells a warm and easy-to-understand love story in the language of "container people". Considering this movie could be the best "The Outsider" if it was re-released Fassbinder fulfills his promise of "Let the movie and life never be separated" in the flat narrative and honest relative movie plot. Others are hell But when we are together, at least...

    • By Sigrid 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      People always say "but", but nothing changes; I love you more, how much, so much, I love you from here to...

    • By Erich 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      Fassbender-Ozu-Aki shared a language of urban space and color. The city is like the arrangement and combination of industrial products, and the characters are mostly mechanized. The cold performance is extremely precise and accurate. How to control the temperature between people also seems to be a scientific problem. The distance needs to be calculated accurately and the person trapped in it is a lonely void under the cold exterior. The director skillfully used the combination of the zoom lens...

    • By Blaze 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      The technique is simple and the plot simple. Not the same Fassbender. The film focuses on the love story between the elderly and the many black expatriates who are younger. The prejudice and indifference of the people around them make them at a loss. Would the world be a better place if people could be treated as human beings? In addition, the male protagonist is the director's lover. It's a pity that his later life was worse than in the...

    • By Crawford 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      Ah~ I just don't like watching old movies~ But it's still very warm with Baozi: "We are so rich, I really want to buy a small piece of...

    Movie plot

    Amy, a 60-year-old cleaning lady, met Ali, a 40-year-old Moroccan, in a bar because she was sheltering from the rain. The two danced at the instigation of everyone. Finally, Ali sent Amy home again. The two exchanged views at Amy's house. Talking about their loneliness, the talk was short and long, Ali missed the last train and stayed at Amy's house. Waking up the next day, Amy felt uneasy, and Ali reassured her that fear eats the...
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    Although the title of "Ali Fear Eats the Soul" sounds to maintain the consistent gray tone of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in fact, this film is a rare warm work. The narrative is clear and easy to understand, the form is popular and complete, and the first part is even warm and touching, full of human care. But the director's work, Ali Fear Eats the Soul, is known for its brutal, so-called beauty, which is almost suffocatingly...
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    Movie quotes

    • Emmi Kurowski: We'll be rich, Ali... and we'll buy ourselves a little piece of heaven.

      Ali: Why heaven?

      Emmi Kurowski: Oh, just a fancy of mine.

    • Emmi Kurowski: But when we're together, we must be nice to each other. Otheriwse, life's not worth living.

    • Emmi Kurowski: Maybe...

      Ali: Yes?

      Emmi Kurowski: Why don't you come up for a while? I'll make us a coffee, and maybe the rain will stop.

      Ali: I'd like to, but...

      Emmi Kurowski: People always say "but". And nothing ever changes.